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The resurfaced footage - filmed in December of 1940 - reveal the festive vision that the Nazi Propagandists marketed to the German public.

In the videos, Hitler is seen enjoying Christmas lunch around the table filled with little children - whilst other Nazi leaders Herman Goring and Joseph Goebbels laughing and playfully handing out gifts to kids.

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However the Jewish origins of Jesus and the festive commemoration of his birth as the Jewish Messiah was troubling for some members of the Nazi group and their racial beliefs. So attempts were made to bring the celebration of Christmas in line with Nazi ideology.

Between 1933 and 1945, Hitler's officials tried to remove the Jewish and Christian aspects of the holidays.

Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler in the video celebrating Christmas while Jews are sent to extermination camps

Nazi ideologists claimed that Christmas was based on ancient Germanic traditions. They argued that Christmas Eve originally had nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christmas - but instead celebrated the winter solstice and the rebirth of the sun.

In Nazi holiday posters, Santa Claus was even represented as the Germanic God 'Odin' rather than the Christian reinvention of Saint Nicholas.

A huge Christmas tree with a giant Swastika at the top of it (Image: News Dog Media)

To add to this, the Nazi Party claimed that the swastika was an ancient symbol of the sun and encouraged the German public to place the swastika on the top of the Christmas tree instead. Swastika-shaped tree lights were also sold.

During the height of the Third Reich, there were even attempts to remove the association of the coming of Jesus at Christmas - and instead replace it with the coming of Hitler, referred to as the 'Saviour Fuhrer'.

This tradition failed to take off and instead the Nazi Party settled on depicting Mary and Jesus as a blonde Aryan mother and child instead.